• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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      I just think it’s funny that people believe you won’t know they’ve been smoking weed if they’re wearing patchouli.

      As if there were any other reason people went out wearing patchouli.

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        Many years ago I was acquainted with college kids who used it exclusively to mask the fact that they didn’t believe in deodorant. Weed was certainly involved on some level, but I remember sooooo many unsolicited lectures about the dangers of bathing with soap every day and wearing “chemicals” when all you really need is a good sebaceous barrier to protect your skin and some nice patchouli.

        Barf. Barf barf barf.

        It was years before I smelled patchouli on its own - without the underlying BO funk. It’s not objectively bad, but I can’t disconnect it from the unwashed masses of prep school kids who were suddenly untethered from their dress codes.

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        Is that why people use it? I guess that would explain why it’s popular with the more crusty cohort.

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    I used to know a guy who would go to festivals with a super soaker he called the Job Cannon. He’d walk around sniffing the air going “I smell patchouli” and screaming “Get a job, hippie!” before spraying people.

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      the toy action figure Stinkor from Mattel’s Masters of the Universe

      Why are there not more memes of this character

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    Pachouli,… I have never associated it with weed (like many posts in here) but with Goths. The dark and heavy smell isn’t that far off…